Foreword -- Part One: Presumption of power -- 1: A sizzling of fuses -- 2: Sixty days a-go-go -- Part Two: Paradox in power -- 3: A good man in a wicked time -- 4: The seminal influences -- 5: The captive hero -- 6: The politics of utility -- 7: The puzzle inside the Chinese boxes -- Part Three: Renegade out of power -- 8: The waltz of the party pashas -- 9: A dark and bellowing presence -- 10: The year Dalton Camp blew his cool -- 11: The struggle for succession -- 12: Convention -- 13: Done for -- 14: The new leader -- Part Four: Exercise of power -- 15: The acrobats in the empty circus tent -- 16: Walter Gordon: Troubled Canadian -- 17: A footnote on Sailor Jack -- 18: The exploding epaulettes -- 19: The great flag debate -- 20: The temptations of power -- Part Five: Emancipation of power -- 21: The revolt that tried to become a revolution -- 22: Nine momentous days in April -- 23: The death of co-operative federalism -- Part Six: Power denied -- 24: The uncertain trumpet call -- 25: The man who tried to become Canada -- 26: The campaigner who never was -- 27: The reluctant reckoning -- Part Seven: Abdication of power -- 28: The Munsinger affair -- 29: Downhill all the way -- 30: The flowering of Pierre -- Acknowledgments